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Ms Hoang Thi Ha is Senior Fellow and Co-coordinator of the Regional Strategic and Political Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. Prior to this, she held positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam and the ASEAN Secretariat, with her last post being Assistant Director, Head of the Political Cooperation Division. Her research interests include geopolitics in Southeast Asia and political-security issues in ASEAN, especially the South China Sea disputes, ASEAN human rights cooperation, ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific discourse and ASEAN’s institutional building. She holds an MA in International Relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.